The change of title is a deliberate provocation, as Tharoor himself observed while here, the word inglorious these days is most closely associated with another word in the title of a Quentin Tarantino film. He has been here pushing the book that was commissioned out of that 2015 debate speech, released in India late last year under the title An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, and now in Britain as Inglorious Empire: What the British Did in India. This past week, Tharoor has been back in Britain, stalking British corridors of power, corridors that in the wake of Brexit (Britian’s decision to leave the European Union last year) seem to be getting narrower by the day. Viewed millions of times, the speech sparked an impassioned global debate around whether Britain had fully come to terms with its colonial past. His speech was so electrifying that within hours of its video being posted online, his fame had spread to the furthest reaches of the British Isles and far beyond, penetrating even the palest depths of the Home Counties.

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